304 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



the brink of a deep pool of water, and not wishing 

 to get wet, I was looking for a means of going round 

 it, when my attention was attracted by a slight 

 movement in the bush, not more than twenty yards 

 off. I had a charge of No. 4 shot in both barrels, 

 and after intently examining the spot for a moment 

 or two, I saw a dusky form and a pair of eyes looking 

 at me. No sooner had our eyes met, than it saw 

 that it was discovered, rushed out of the bush and 

 bounded up the bank, exposing its flank. The right 

 barrel caught it fairly enough ; but these little deer 

 have wonderful vitality, and it was not until it had 

 reached the top of the bank and got the contents of 

 my left barrel, that it toppled over and lay in the 

 agonies of death almost on the very spot whence it 

 had started. As I could see no way of getting round 

 the pool, I was about to wade across, when my native 

 appeared on the opposite side, some way down, waving 

 the florikan which he had secured. Bidding him keep 

 on till opposite to me, I pointed out the deer, and 

 pretending that it was still alive he cut its throat, 

 otherwise the meat would not have been lawful for 

 a Mussulman to eat. He then shouldered it and 

 plunged into the pool and waded across ; as he was 

 considerably taller than I, and the water reached to 

 his arm-pits, I thanked my stars that I had remained 

 on my own side. 



The native was not overburdened with clothes, he 

 soon wrung out his waist-cloth, and, taking up the 

 slain, we were retracing our way to the camp, when 

 coming to the spot where the guinea fowl had fallen 

 I took a cast round, and put it up it ran like a race- 

 horse, but a snap shot brought it down. As I fired 



